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In French, the word niche literally referred to what?

niche

[nich, neesh] / nɪtʃ, niʃ /


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"Migrant communities often had to figure out their own niche in a new place," said Andrea Torvinen, collections manager of the Ceramic Technology Lab and Florida Archaeology at the Florida Museum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Before the ube craze, it was a niche market," he said, adding it had lagged behind high-value crops like bananas, mangoes and coffee.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

"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

In 2008, School Band and Orchestra magazine, a niche publication read by music educators and virtually no one else, published an essay by Jef Raskin.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Instead, repeated rounds of genomic reorganization appear to have generated different versions of the water saving strategy, helping individual species adapt to very different ecological niches.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The goal was to identify genetic signatures showing that certain bacterial populations had successfully adapted to specific ecological niches inside the gut.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 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

Ten thousand years ago, not more than a few million sheep, cattle, goats, boars and chickens lived in restricted Afro-Asian niches.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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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