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More than 370,000 miles of roads were built through national forests prior to the 2001 rule, with a maintenance backlog of billions of dollars.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The view reflects strong written retail sales and a solid wholesale backlog, tempered by a cautious view of the wider economic outlook, Luebke said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, planned maintenance and upgrades have to be postponed, leading to a maintenance backlog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

CoreWeave has also been investing heavily to increase capacity and convert its backlog into revenue.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 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

Both Super Micro and CoreWeave pointed to swelling backlogs reflecting ongoing customer demand for AI hardware.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Supply-chain backlogs, permitting fights and availability of power supplies are among the issues that have caused the construction of data centers to fall behind targeted timelines this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

LightCounting’s reason is that almost every transceiver component is now scarce and customers have started double ordering, which inflates backlogs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 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

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