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Charlie Berry, policy manager at housing charity Shelter, said the announcement was "not near the level we need to truly tackle that backlog and end homelessness".

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

More than 370,000 miles of roads were built through national forests prior to the 2001 rule, with a maintenance backlog of billions of dollars.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Its backlog of generator orders from data centers stretches as far out as 2030, Caterpillar said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Investors are entitled to read a large backlog as a positive signal, but they should price it as a range of outcomes rather than as revenue that has already happened,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

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

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

After the dishes were out of the way Pat built a huge fire with three great backlogs one above another and slanting back to keep them from rolling down.

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