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backlog

[bak-lawg, -log] / ˈbækˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /


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Intrator on Tuesday said he was “very comfortable” about the status of the data centers its revenue backlog was going into and noted the company was also expanding outside the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Daniel Metzler, who founded the company with two fellow students in 2018, pointed to a huge backlog of launch orders, helped by European military clients.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Almost $1 billion of that backlog comes from new launch contracts that were inked in the third quarter, along with $470 million signed for its space-systems business unit, CEO Peter Beck said in a statement.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Bombardier’s backlog reached $22.2 billion at quarter’s end, rising by $4.7 billion compared with the beginning of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Once I set up the solar panels, I fired up the oxygenator and let it work through the backlog of C02 that the regulator had stored up.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

A separate state system for updating registration information wasn’t processing changes for several weeks, leading to more backlogs.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Under the government's plan magistrates will have the power to jail for up to two years - the aim being to keep more cases out of Crown Court, to help clear backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

He said it is important to reduce visa backlogs and modernize the immigration system to meet the needs of our economy and support employers and legal immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The market for large turbines used at power plants has multiyear backlogs due to rising demand for power, much of it coming from the artificial intelligence boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

He had a big, open fireplace with backlogs and andirons.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

It was backlogged, so they would fly them in-country to wherever they wanted to go.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

The company’s mints, which source silver from local refineries in North America, are backlogged with orders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

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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