backlog
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The analyst expects the South Korean firm’s order backlog to exceed 250 megawatts of fuel cells following its recent 501-billion-won contract with HyAxiom to supply products to U.S. data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Dell booked $24.4 billion in AI orders in the quarter ended May 1, leaving a $51.3 billion backlog.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
At one clinic in Dudley, the tool was credited with reducing a backlog of posting patient letters from six months to 14 days.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But the deployment of 19 warships, air-defense units, fighter squadrons and paratroopers across the region is straining servicemembers and their families and creating a maintenance backlog that could take years to unwind, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
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There are large backlogs in cases, as well as difficulties in carrying out post-mortems.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Experts say extended deployments cause maintenance backlogs and stress sailors, who face uncertainty over end dates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Both Super Micro and CoreWeave pointed to swelling backlogs reflecting ongoing customer demand for AI hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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
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
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 BLS is expected to quickly release the backlogged September jobs report after the government reopens, since it is pegged to data that was collected before the closure began on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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
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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