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vignette

[vin-yet] / vɪnˈjɛt /
NOUN
story
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NOUN
scenario
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He escapes into a mystical realm that is shown in a series of short films which span the 20th century, each vignette starring him in a different guise.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2025

“Our results here show that, for the same client vignette, AI advisers recommend safer portfolios than human advisers and that … scenario cues, not adviser idiosyncrasies, drive the difference.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 12, 2025

This vignette, despite the mishap, ends more happily than the others, but the evening still leaves a sour aftertaste.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

This was one vignette from the striking array of the world's biggest Silicon Valley tech companies turning on the transatlantic investment tap.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2025

This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The finished product was more like a compilation of shot-for-shot music video and live performance recreations, stitched together with vignettes depicting a tepid version of Jackson’s real, tumultuous life.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

There will be a nod to the 250th celebrations with historical "vignettes" between bouts, Axios reported, and there will also be military bands, a US military flyover and parachute display and a 10-minute fireworks finale.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 2026

“Ladies’ Lunch” and “Still Talking” comprise short vignettes about a group of aging friends who for decades have gotten together every other month or so on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

Dean's secret weapon is the incisiveness of her lyrics, which paint instantly-recognisable vignettes of love.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2026

I’ve already seen the movie—it’s an anthology, a little collection of vignettes about life in Paris, each taking place in a different quarter of the city.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

His grand themes are all there: a two-zone transfer is a bus ticket, sure — but also passage between realms of Black and white; haves and have-nots; harshly lit reality and vignetted dreams.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2022

As such, “Booth” has the feel of an oft-repeated family legend — vignetted at the edges, full of portents, omens and mysterious reversals of fate.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2022

The second filter vignetted around the subject to make them fit in the brandy snifter.

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2022

Its political admirals, mercilessly vignetted by Larrabee, were boneheads or worse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The “process man” and the clever manipulator on the plates, will do the rest, producing pictures vignetted, if desired, as overleaf.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn

We sent the picture above to Sony, and Rob Brennan, Product Technology Manager at Sony, told The Verge that “Just from this picture alone, this amount of vignetting is within acceptable tolerances.”

From The Verge Aug. 4, 2022

Also, there’s some vignetting in the corners and along sections of the edges of my M9 review unit.

From The Verge Aug. 4, 2022

Specifically, Lodi notes that they can cause issues such as blurring, distortion, and vignetting.

From Slate May 25, 2018

One last downside: In certain photos, when I adjusted the overall contrast in Photoshop later, I noticed some vignetting — darkened areas at the corners.

From New York Times Jun. 27, 2012

I saw at once that the peculiarities of the design, of the vignetting, and of the frame, must have instantly dispelled such idea—must have prevented even its momentary entertainment.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Nathaniel Parker Willis




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