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backlog

[bak-lawg, -log] / ˈbækˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /


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CoreWeave’s rapid sales growth is fueled by a growing backlog, now up to $130 billion from $99 billion at the end of March.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

“Investors are entitled to read a large backlog as a positive signal, but they should price it as a range of outcomes rather than as revenue that has already happened,” he said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Form has a backlog of commercial projects that jumped earlier this year, to 80 gigawatt-hours from 20 gigawatt-hours.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

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

I don’t even have time to get nervous for the first three and do well, but there’s a backlog at the Block.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

Numerous cities and municipalities have sued the largest firetruck makers, alleging they created artificial shortages and backlogs to drive up prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 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

In front of these smaller logs were piled, the backlogs reflecting the heat forward into the lean-to.

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 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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