as in portrait
a vivid representation in words of someone or something
the general's memoirs are filled with revealing vignettes of some of the war's most compelling personalities
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Recent Examples of vignette
Ocean Vuong
october 1, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2019
There’s naturally vignetting wide open, but this is successfully removed by both types of lens corrections.
—James Abbott, Space.com, 27 May 2025
Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Picture them artfully clustered together on a display wall or layered into a kitchen vignette with cookbooks and tchotchkes once the dinner has wrapped.
—Angela Tafoya, Architectural Digest, 18 June 2025
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Noun
In this way, the voice, the letter itself, became the main plot, the digressions in memory, cultural investigations, and vignettes its tributaries.
—Ocean Vuong
october 1, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2019
There’s naturally vignetting wide open, but this is successfully removed by both types of lens corrections.
—James Abbott, Space.com, 27 May 2025
Verb
The seaside community brought 1775, and one of the Revolutionary War’s major battlegrounds, back to life through vignettes, battle demonstrations and even lectures.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Picture them artfully clustered together on a display wall or layered into a kitchen vignette with cookbooks and tchotchkes once the dinner has wrapped.
—Angela Tafoya, Architectural Digest, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vignette
Noun
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The machine can handle everything from ultra-sharp lettering to lifelike portraits.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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The truth is that Sofia’s job can be taxing, and in The Scout, which premiered in June at the Tribeca Film Festival, González-Nasser, who was herself a location scout for six years, crafts a modest portrait of its complicated reality.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
Verb
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In an exclusive interview with CNBC earlier this week, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown outlined a leadership approach centered on urgency, momentum and learning from failure.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
7 July 2025
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The county has outlined terms for a new lease agreement that would be for 11 years, including the 2025 season, with options for five two-year extensions.—
Erin Glynn,
The Enquirer,
7 July 2025
Noun
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Tempest’s description evokes a dreamlike horror, laced with black humor: Men were still stuck in the mud all over the battlefield, imploring help to lift them out : half crazy with the sense of their own impotence, and the enemy shelling. . . .—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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The menu’s description was understated: chocolate mousse.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
Verb
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The Trump administration has since hinted that some trading partners might get more time for talks.—
Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Twin Cities,
7 July 2025
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Musk's recent support of Massie hints that the raging feud between the two is not over.—
Jolene Almendarez,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Her most famous depiction is on a tilma (cloak-like garment), attributed to a 16th-century story of a Nahua man named Juan Diego.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 July 2025
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Superman 2025 is the latest in a long line of media depictions of the dashing visitor from another planet who fights bad guys (Earthlings and aliens), rescues people in distress, inspires hope and seeks justice.—
Rusty Wright,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 July 2025
Verb
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Another iconic Salgado photograph, this time from Kuwait: A Desert on Fire, shows a man silhouetted against a raging inferno.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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The model on display on Sunday had a blue wrap with orangish-yellow striping along the lower sides, with a couple of palm tree silhouettes.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
9 July 2025
Noun
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The star of the movie also briefly discussed his portrayal.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 July 2025
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Tatiana Maslany anchors this Canadian potboiler with her portrayal of about a dozen (give or take) clones all built from the same original.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
Verb
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The motive can be summarized as pure agency, pure evil; in other words, premeditated murder.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
4 July 2025
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The ubiquity of that level of hit-making is summarized in Sheeran's TIME feature.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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“Vignette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vignette. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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