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In French, the word niche literally referred to what?

niche

[nich, neesh] / nɪtʃ, niʃ /


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"But narrowing a $112 billion deficit won't come from finding niche export sectors alone," he adds.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Fifteen years later, the niche local broadcast on K-Beach Radio has ballooned into a cultural movement that extends far behind his alma mater’s campus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

That suggests an opportunity for Apple to expand what has been a niche category—if it can overcome competition from Chinese brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Big SUVs are a particularly attractive niche to grow into because they carry higher margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Artemis hunted the small magnet from its niche in the toolbox and applied both poles to the tiny screws.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

"Our findings show that gut bacteria are also more dynamic than previously thought. Well-adapted strains can spread internationally and occupy new ecological niches," says study leader Martin F. Polz from the University of Vienna.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Their environmental niches expanded as landscapes became more modified, but contracted as human presence increased.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

As demand for apartment scouts grows, Scanlon says she hopes others get involved, tackling different niches and neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Anta, one of Nike’s chief competitors in China, was determined to serve those niches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

On either side of them, in niches carved from the stone, skulls looked down on them.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Other creatives even blend the niched looks with well-known fairy tales or Disney characters.

From Fox News ● Jan. 26, 2021

“I don’t like being niched as a South Asian comic, man,” he says.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2016

United Passions has a small, niched Eastern European showing well away from the action.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2014

That may still be true…although we’ve seen everything else in society fragmented, niched and marketized.

From Time ● Oct. 22, 2013

By this time his eyes were accustomed to the darkness, and he made out something white niched into the corner opposite.

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston

But I think it was also resistance to the niching and atomizing of life and time itself by social media, tabloid scandal, and other forms of goldfish-like attention.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2015

Call it niching down to reach a billion.

From Forbes ● Oct. 28, 2014

Still, I had come to Cairo hoping for a step forward in a strategy that had been niching ahead for four years.

From Time Magazine Archive




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