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backlog

[bak-lawg, -log] / ˈbækˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /


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“We are confident in our backlog which more than supports all of our debt obligations,” CoreWeave said in an emailed statement shared by a spokesperson.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

One of the pilots at the Old Bailey led to the London backlog of 500 cases concerning assaults on emergency workers being cut in half over the summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The company’s backlog of customer contracts grew 246% in the second quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Ending backlog increased for the first time in four years, with the number of homes in the backlog up 2% to 4,398.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

She also had to sort through the unit’s massive backlog of paperwork.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

The government says it will expand the use of so-called "blitz" or "short trial" courts after pilots have shown that grouping similar cases together can speed up their progression through the courts - cutting backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

While a volatile environment discourages new participants from entering the market, large aircraft delivery backlogs will make new supply difficult.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Fundamental support for those stocks is broadening out, with manufacturing backlogs ramping up across machinery, fabricated metals and other categories, and manufacturing data showing a buildup in orders, strategists said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The series of radical reforms, including scaling back jury trials, were presented as the best way of turning around record backlogs which, in turn, were exacerbating the prison population crisis.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

When it was blazing freely he piled upon it, and in front of the green backlogs, several of the logs of dry wood.

From Troop One of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

It was backlogged, so they would fly them in-country to wherever they wanted to go.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 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

Last month, the program served more than 300 children, working with immigration judges at courts in Los Angeles and Orange County to move cases through the backlogged system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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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