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The growth in homeless applications has been linked to the asylum backlog.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Investors have generally been concerned over the company’s $638 billion in remaining performance obligations, or backlog, and how quickly it can be converted to revenue.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

But there is a backlog of orders for new combined-cycle natural-gas plants and good reason to think that gas prices will rise in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Dell said it had reached a record $51.3 billion in AI backlog during its last earnings report, Daryanani added, and the company would be able to recognize more upside if not for supply shortages.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The posters were so good that word of mouth spread, and soon Lori had such a backlog of orders that she was up working until one or two every morning.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

Both CoreWeave and Super Micro also touted growing backlogs, with the latter reiterating that its new orders reached more than $60 billion in the June quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 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

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 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 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