Shiffrin, the Olympic giant slalom champion, won world super-G gold in Are last week, but was 0.38 seconds adrift of the Slovakian and had to be content with GS bronze Thursday.
Shiffrin was fourth after the first run but could not make up the gap as Vlhova, 23, passed first-run leader Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany to clinch her first world championship gold.
Vlhova has come closest to knocking Shiffrin off her pedestal in the World Cup this season, winning four times, but she has finished runner-up to the American on six occasions.
Shiffrin has won 13 times to build an almost impregnable lead in the World Cup overall standings, a crown she has won for the past two years.
She has also won the World Cup slalom crown for five of the last six years but has yet to win the World Cup giant slalom title.
The 23-year-old Shiffrin is targeting a fourth straight slalom world title Saturday.
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