backlog
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And Oracle remains in an especially vulnerable position in the overall AI ecosystem — with almost half of its $638 billion backlog stemming from a single customer, OpenAI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
In July, Super Micro had said new orders reached more than $60 billion in the June quarter, helping to bring its backlog to record levels at the end of its fiscal year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Shares of the SpaceX rival have risen nearly 80% over the past year on higher revenue and a growing backlog of orders.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The company said its revenue backlog has grown to about $1.3 billion in contracted revenue from commercial partners and awards from the U.S. government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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While the Social Security Administration has already processed most adjustments and issued many retroactive payments, some retirees are still waiting because of administrative backlogs and complex eligibility cases, according to the publication Government Executive.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Surging electricity demand and equipment backlogs have pushed up construction costs for U.S. power plants more than 10% since last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
According to BCA Research, hyperscaler cloud backlogs — orders received but not yet fulfilled — have grown by roughly $750 billion over just the past two quarters.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The SSA currently does not provide the same detailed, real-time metrics as it did in the past, providing only snapshots of its performance instead of running updated tabulations of caseloads, timings and backlogs, analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
For the huge fireplace, huge lengths of logs, for the backlogs, were cut, which required three persons to roll in place.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny
This is not normal; immigration court is deeply backlogged and most cases of asylum—one of the most complex forms of U.S. immigration—were being assigned well into 2029 and 2030.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026
The reopened federal government will on Thursday release the first backlogged monthly jobs report, for the month of September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Pending approval by the House and signing by President Donald Trump, a reopened government would pave the way for a flood of backlogged economic data and the resumption of normal airline operations, among other functions.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
The government said it changed the rules to "enhance" the link between Italy and the citizen abroad, avoid 'abuse' and 'commercialisation' of passports, and free up resources to clear backlogged applications.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
If everyone who came before the court for a competency hearing brought out a bunch of irrelevant witnesses and made long speeches, the court calendar would be backlogged for decades.
From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
Interviews documented in the police report suggest that a key cause of the backlogging at the lab is a 2009 US Supreme Court decision known as Melendez-Diaz v.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2012
But in two fair-sized cities, Portland, Ore., and New Orleans, district attorneys claim that they have been able to get stiffer sentences without backlogging the court docket by cutting down on plea bargaining.
From Time Magazine Archive
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