niche

A niche term of art in machine-learning research, it is proving a handy metaphor for talking about growth and threatening to cross over into wider business-speak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Medpace has carved out a niche helping smaller biotechs navigate the regulatory process.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Neos and Innovator Capital — another ETF firm purchased by Goldman in a deal that was finalized earlier this year — both cater to this rapidly growing niche.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

"They can be successful and sustainable even as a niche platform," he says, arguing it should be rooted in 2000s culture.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Faramir was sitting there in his chair, and the lamp had been rekindled in its niche above his head.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

It is spending real money, building policy around the full cost of child rearing, and in doing so, creating a new set of investible niches.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Renting out hardware will also allow Oracle to expand into higher-margin niches such as sovereign cloud, which involves building localized data centers for national governments.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 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

I am no saint niched in a hallowed wall For men to worship, but I would compel A level gaze.

From A Woman's Love Letters by Sophia Margaret Hensley

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