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Ending backlog increased for the first time in four years, with the number of homes in the backlog up 2% to 4,398.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

A backlog of applications from the UK for working holiday visas would continue to be processed slowly after a record 80,000 applications -- a matter that is under discussion with the UK government, he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The company added that it had a backlog for products serving the data-center market of about $1.6 billion at the time.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Last year, Congress also allocated a one-time, $257 million sum to go toward infrastructure, renovations and a backlog of structural maintenance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

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

The company said products are moving through its distribution network at or above normal levels to fulfill orders and reduce backlogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Key indicators of demand — new orders, order backlogs and imports — saw large declines in the month, she noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

There are large backlogs in cases, as well as difficulties in carrying out post-mortems.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

After the dishes were out of the way Pat built a huge fire with three great backlogs one above another and slanting back to keep them from rolling down.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

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 BLS is expected to quickly release the backlogged September jobs report after the government reopens, since it is pegged to data that was collected before the closure began on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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

As part of the layoffs, in San Francisco, the regional branch of the department’s Office for Civil Rights — already backlogged with investigations into school-related discrimination — is closing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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