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a large number of jobs or items that are waiting to be finished or processed
We have a huge backlog of orders yet to be filled.
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Recent Examples of backlog
Adding prosecutors without boosting resources for public defenders and private attorneys could exacerbate backlog issues, according to Thomas.
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Margaret Shreiner, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The bill mandates the FAA enact 24 recommendations from an aviation rule-making committee within two years, forcing the agency to address a backlog of pilot medical certifications with special exceptions as well as hire FAA physicians with mental health backgrounds.
—Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
New natural gas plants are being delayed until the 2030s because of a 50-month backlog for natural gas turbines, and new nuclear power plants can take more than a decade to get off the ground.
—Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2025
For one, Manzanillo had experienced a four-day customs workers strike in May that resulted in berthing backlogs for weeks after.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Sep. 2025
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Margaret Shreiner, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The bill mandates the FAA enact 24 recommendations from an aviation rule-making committee within two years, forcing the agency to address a backlog of pilot medical certifications with special exceptions as well as hire FAA physicians with mental health backgrounds.
—Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
New natural gas plants are being delayed until the 2030s because of a 50-month backlog for natural gas turbines, and new nuclear power plants can take more than a decade to get off the ground.
—Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2025
For one, Manzanillo had experienced a four-day customs workers strike in May that resulted in berthing backlogs for weeks after.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backlog
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Less than four months of inventory indicates a seller's market; more than six signals a buyer's market.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Their collection is carefully chosen—a thoughtful selection rather than a catch-all inventory.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Every September and December, Broadbelt would stuff barrels with care packages, gifts and school supplies to send back to Jamaica.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Insects crawled through clinical areas, and staff food was stored alongside medical supplies.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The test focused on cushioning, rebound, and other performance indicators that usually take weeks of athlete data collection.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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By adding a new molecule— borrowed from skin care—to their Infiniment Coty Paris fragrance collection, perfumes achieve the unusually long wear time of 30 hours, something none of us or our industry judges have ever seen or smelled before.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Banfield had to go back to the pile, as it was called, for nine straight days.—
Rachel Burchfield,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The pile-in on Broadcom comes after Oracle nearly turned into a hyperscaler overnight.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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Most accumulations will come tonight and Friday night.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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One multi-year project includes collecting core samples from glaciers to measure snow accumulation, the main contributor to glacial growth.—
Stefanie Waldek,
AFAR Media,
12 Sep. 2025
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In the spring, a metal detectorist found a hoard of 1,469 Roman coins in the field of a small village in Romania.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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See the full setlist here The music does a lot of the legwork, stadium-ready with massive, no-frills choruses begging to be sung back to him by hoards of devotees.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
29 Aug. 2025
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Investigators also documented vehicles — like a quad bike — supplies and a cache of ammunition.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
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The designs are tailored for AI algorithms and offer an improved memory subsystem, featuring configurable caches and new memory latency tolerance mechanisms that help mask latency and maximize throughput under demanding workloads.—
Marco Chiappetta,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The United States is flooded with nearly half a billion guns, and the stockpile does not vanish just because the murder rate dips.—
John J. Donohue,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Of course, the only reason Oracle is in this position is down to Ellison’s courting of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which has allowed his company, previously a distinct back-of-the-pack cloud company, to secure a massive stockpile of top-of-the-line Nvidia GPUs.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Backlog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backlog. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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