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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
Most agencies have large backlogs of such requests.
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Byron Tau, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
The end of the loophole could lead to significant disruptions in shipments, similar to the backlog experienced at JFK Airport earlier this year.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
With more than $100 million in secured backlog, INCORAGE continues to prove that principled execution can drive both reliability and growth.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
This gave families valuable time and allowed more children to remain eligible as dependents, even amid long visa backlogs.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Byron Tau, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
The end of the loophole could lead to significant disruptions in shipments, similar to the backlog experienced at JFK Airport earlier this year.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
With more than $100 million in secured backlog, INCORAGE continues to prove that principled execution can drive both reliability and growth.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
This gave families valuable time and allowed more children to remain eligible as dependents, even amid long visa backlogs.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backlog
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According to the report, 37% of the metro’s for-sale listings are new builds — even as existing-home inventory continues to rise.—
Collyn Wainwright,
Nashville Tennessean,
4 Sep. 2025
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By June, most of NBCU’s Super Bowl inventory was gone, according to buyers, though there has been speculation that the company may have kept some ad berths back in hopes of getting $8 million or bigger packages of advertising tied to its larger portfolio of media assets.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 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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Keep scrolling for fall decor picks from the Magnolia collection at Target, starting at $5.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Sep. 2025
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One thing that is in your control is having a trustworthy collection of travel bags.—
Rachel Trujillo,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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By Wednesday, the streets in Kathmandu, many littered with piles of charred debris, were largely quiet.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Less than a dozen blocks away from my home and within a mile of downtown Oakland, a multi-ton pile of scrap metal threatens to spontaneously combust under the hot sun.—
Brian Beveridge,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Chicago couldn’t discipline her for the Sky’s next game against the Indiana Fever because Reese has already been suspended for that contest due to technical foul accumulation.—
Sabreena Merchant,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The team announced the suspension in a statement less than two hours before tipoff of Friday’s road game against the Indiana Fever, for which Reese already was suspended because of an accumulation of technical fouls.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
5 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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That cash hoard, combined with structurally low equity ownership means retail investors in China could keep driving markets higher, according to experts.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
25 Aug. 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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This prevents many attacks that use lookalike domain names or hacks such as DNS cache poisoning to create rogue sites masquerading as the real, trusted ones.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Iran boosted its stockpile of uranium enriched close to weapons-grade levels just before Israel launched its June 13 military assault, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report obtained by the Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday.—
Jenna Sundel
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Almost all of American Bitcoin’s stockpile, however—2,234 Bitcoins—were pledged to the company that provided its computers.—
Kyle Khan-Mullins,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Backlog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backlog. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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