niches 1 of 2

noun

plural of niche
1
as in alcoves
a hollowed-out space in a wall statues of various saints occupy the niches lining the abbey's many corridors

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2
as in places
a situation or activity for which a person or thing is best suited after several false starts, she finally found her niche in the restaurant business

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3
as in habitats
the place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found the platypus's niche is the waters of eastern Australia and Tasmania

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niches

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verb

present tense third-person singular of niche
as in plants

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Recent Examples of niches
Noun
However, certain niches see much steeper discounts than others. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026 More bespoke programing tied to specific audience niches could be in store, depending on talks between the company and the NFL. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026 There, trenches, benches, niches and other architectural devices are carved into the floor and walls—adding to the drama of the paintings covering the walls. — Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026 When the catastrophe wiped out their massive non-avian relatives, the bird lineages that survived were positioned to take advantage of newly vacant ecological niches. — Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Wall niches display fragrances, books and Crivelli’s found items, such as bark or a feather he’s collected during travels. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026 Some niches within the trucking sector benefit more than others. — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026 According to the team, each of those characteristics plays out similarly in real fish of various sizes across different ecological niches. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2026 Taiwanese companies now dominate niches from power supplies to chip packaging and cooling systems, allowing global customers to mix and match suppliers while keeping production flexible. — John Liu, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for niches
  1. alcoves
  2. places
  3. habitats
  4. plants
  5. grooves
  6. homes
  7. flops
  8. jobs
Noun
  • There were no bedrooms, just sleeping alcoves set into the walls.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Incorporating antique finds, greenery, and utilizing your home’s quirky features, like alcoves and nooks, are just a few of the ways your home is set apart from the rest on the block.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of alcoves
Noun
  • The program is different from places like The Golden Scoop, an ice cream shop in Overland Park that employs adults with disabilities over longer terms, according to Morgan.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
  • For Sacramento-area fans of the Valkyries and women’s sports, there are several places to gather and cheer on the team.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of places
Noun
  • Among the diverse habitats are a salt marsh that serves as a nursery for leopard sharks and bat rays as well as kelp forests frequented by harbor seals and wrasses.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • How Oyster Reef Restoration Projects Are Helping Despite the substantial decline in wild oyster populations, restoration efforts along the East Coast are helping rebuild these vital habitats.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of habitats
Verb
  • Once Mooney plants the seed of his joke about how unhappy white Americans seemed after slavery the later images of Confederate memorial groups and white crowds at lynchings take on a surreal resonance.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Mungiu craftily plants the seed of this crisis in his opening shot, set in the aftermath of a stinging act of parental discipline.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of plants
Noun
  • The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • But one of the most striking features of Libertad is that even its most intense tracks feature catchy melodies and irresistible grooves.
    — Vanessa Diaz, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of grooves
Noun
  • Tearing down existing homes on land that is more than 6,000 square feet of the property and constructing multi-family units would produce a financial gap that makes the construction infeasible, according to the study.
    — Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Require resource management plans for water and power before construction, prohibit sites near homes, and coordinate plans with local governments.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of homes
Verb
  • In Bait, Ahmed stars as struggling actor Shah Latif, who flops in his audition to play James Bond and then becomes consumed by the quest to become the first Pakistani 007.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Starter addition flops Last season’s trade deadline wound up being a big flop.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of flops
Noun
  • The protection of American jobs justified the chains of bondage, or so the argument went.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Engagement is often seen as a metric about sentiment that can be measured and tracked, but is treated as something employees bring—or fail to bring—to their jobs.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of jobs

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“Niches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/niches. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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