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In French, the word niche literally referred to what?

niche

[nich, neesh] / nΙͺtΚƒ, niΚƒ /


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My colleagues visited British watchmakers in Maidenhead carving out a niche to take on the Swiss.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

He might have broken even if he raised the retail price to $2,000, but that wasn’t his niche.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Once a niche hobby, it has become a launchpad for the publishing industry, generating breakout smashes like E.L.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

I wrote everything down, began to publish articles here and there, and found a niche writing for food, travel and lifestyle periodicals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

He went to the door and saw a dim light burning in a shaded niche above a doorbell.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

The resulting maps identified "survivable niches" ranging from crater floors several miles across to areas no larger than an astronaut's boot print.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

For crinoids, tube feet play an important role in feeding, responding to water currents and occupying different ecological niches.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

As I stared into empty niches that once contained massive wooden statues of saints, I meditated on how fragile our democracy is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

The guards smiled at him from their niches as he wound his way down the turret stair, carrying the sword in his good hand.

From "A Game of Thrones" 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

Saul was standing back against the wall, as far as he could get away, niched into a corner, his face hidden in his arms.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds

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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