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In French, the word niche literally referred to what?

niche

[nich, neesh] / nɪtʃ, niʃ /


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A niche corner of the derivatives world is colliding with the universe of excahnge-traded funds.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Then they came across a relatively niche, and some experts say riskier, type of mortgage that offered a solution.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

"What we did is use this technology to create an engineered niche for cell transplantation," Kumar says.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

From its early days, the store, called JapanLA, harnessed the internet to promote its products, using MySpace to connect with what was at the time a niche community: Los Angeles fans of kawaii culture.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

But can you tell that to a fifteen-year-old boy trying to find his niche in the world?

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

In particular, competition with early small mammals could have prevented dinosaurs from moving into the mouse-sized and sparrow-sized niches that are filled by many vertebrates today.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 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 deer made beds in shallow niches deep within the thickets where the oaks grew tall and made canopies of limbs and branches.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

Colonel Woodruff made most of the above points which I have niched from him.

From The Brown Mouse by Herbert Quick

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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