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Immigrant and student advocates say the backlog could dramatically worsen, leaving students uncertain about their studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

As of December, the DOE estimated that the SPR’s current major maintenance backlog would cost about $230 million to address, though this didn’t reflect the full scope of the reserve’s needs, GAO said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Bloom’s backlog is about 10x 2025 sales and GE Vernova’s backlog is about 4x 2025 sales.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

How did the courts backlog get so bad?

From BBC ● Jul. 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

Both Bloom Energy and GE Vernova’s order backlogs have soared to $20 billion and $163 billion, respectively.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, long backlogs in both aviation and the power industry should give these manufacturers room to raise prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Whether in the U.S. or Europe, defense companies worldwide are grappling with significant backlogs.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

The fall was driven by declines in new orders and production, which were partially offset by increases in supplier deliveries, order backlogs and employment, according to the survey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

It was not uncommon to draw the huge backlogs on to the hearth with a horse, and sometimes a yoke of oxen were so employed.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

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 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

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 Doctorow, Cory

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