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backlog

[bak-lawg, -log] / ˈbækˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /


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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

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

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

Rocket Lab posted a “record” backlog and detailed new expansion plans, but shares of the rocket-launch company were falling in Monday’s after-hours trading.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 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

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

Chunky deals with big customers are also helping inflate revenue and backlogs, like the more than $100 billion 10-year contract that AWS signed with Anthropic in April.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Surging demand for electricity from artificial-intelligence data centers—combined with equipment backlogs, permitting delays, tariffs and yearslong waits to connect to the grid—are pushing up construction costs for every type of power plant.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 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

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

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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