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The backlog has made it harder to fundraise and has weighed on carried interest, a key form of pay tied to the performance of deals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

A backlog of applications from the UK for working holiday visas would continue to be processed slowly after a record 80,000 applications -- a matter that is under discussion with the UK government, he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Last year, Congress also allocated a one-time, $257 million sum to go toward infrastructure, renovations and a backlog of structural maintenance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

Natural-gas turbines can face multiyear delivery backlogs, delaying new gas-fired power plants.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Key indicators of demand — new orders, order backlogs and imports — saw large declines in the month, she noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Despite coroners ordering post-mortems for 51% of deaths reported to them, a dearth of pathologists willing to work for coroners is leading to huge backlogs of up to a year.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Despite the rapid consumption by Ukraine and multiyear backlogs, interceptor manufacturers have only achieved a modest boost in production so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

We selected butternut for backlogs, because, when green, it burns very slowly and lasts a long time.

From Woodcraft by George Washington Sears

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

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 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