backlog

Total backlog stood at about $41 billion at the end of the second quarter, up 1.9% from last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Honeywell said its backlog is up 7% from last year, to nearly $19 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Lockheed said its backlog grew 27% since the second quarter, setting another record at $291.98 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Despite a two-year transition period to prepare for the takeover, problems have persisted and by February the backlog had grown to 120,000 cases.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

By 1997, the repair backlog for the national parks had reached $6 billion.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Under the government's plan magistrates will have the power to jail for up to two years - the aim being to keep more cases out of Crown Court, to help clear backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The proposals triggered an outcry across many parts of the criminal justice world, with many opponents saying that eroding the 800-year-old right to trial by jury would not solve the backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

He said it is important to reduce visa backlogs and modernize the immigration system to meet the needs of our economy and support employers and legal immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The market for large turbines used at power plants has multiyear backlogs due to rising demand for power, much of it coming from the artificial intelligence boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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 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