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In French, the word niche literally referred to what?

niche

[nich, neesh] / nɪtʃ, niʃ /


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Some extremists like to shout their most extreme views, while others express them in niche journals or in private, among well-heeled friends.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

"I'm sure, for other businesses though, they would have loved to have seen some other things that aren't pickles, because I think pickles can be quite niche."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Brundo is asking $15 million for the property that spans more than an acre on the edge of Melrose Hill, a niche neighborhood at Melrose and Western avenues known for its trendy restaurants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the decision to focus on such a niche problem was intended to show that a small but committed group of citizens can still successfully push for policy changes at the federal level.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Giving a skillful flick, she jammed the rope in the niche of the broken stone edge.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Ecological pressures, including competition, predation, and access to different ecological niches, probably helped determine how small these dinosaurs could become.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

"Once birds entered those new ecological niches, they were free to evolve body sizes that had simply not been possible for other dinosaurs."

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

‘Uh, that semicircular depression in the hill, with the niches ... that’s a nymphaeum, built in Roman times.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

But I stopped to gossip with a shepherd on a grassy hillside, and to admire certain little villages which are niched in small, transverse, seaward-sloping valleys.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

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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