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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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The Department of Education is currently working through a backlog of applications that has over 1.5 million borrowers awaiting approval as of June 30.
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Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2025
Vertiv’s Sources Of Future Growth Vertiv expects strong growth as evidenced by the following metrics from the company’s Q2 2025 investor presentation:
A 21% increase in Vertiv’s backlog of $8.5B at the end of second quarter.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
The Austin district relied heavily on contractors to overcome its chronic backlog of evaluation requests.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Strong backlog growth also gives us confidence that end market demand remains healthy.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 26 July 2025
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Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2025
Vertiv’s Sources Of Future Growth Vertiv expects strong growth as evidenced by the following metrics from the company’s Q2 2025 investor presentation:
A 21% increase in Vertiv’s backlog of $8.5B at the end of second quarter.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
The Austin district relied heavily on contractors to overcome its chronic backlog of evaluation requests.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Strong backlog growth also gives us confidence that end market demand remains healthy.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backlog
Noun
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Next, explore task-specific AI tools for marketing, inventory, or finance.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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What Is Happening in the US Housing Market? Home prices have skyrocketed all across the country since the pandemic, when a homebuying frenzy unleashed by low mortgage rates clashed with a chronic lack of inventory.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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Backpacks and school supplies will be distributed, and a limited amount of laptops will be raffled.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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Your authors grew up in a time when school-children learned about the problems of an ozone hole, acid rain, and depleted tungsten supplies, not carbon emissions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
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Black Sabbath shirts, plaques, and albums also appear in the collection.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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An Authority Positioning Portfolio is a structured collection of media assets designed to establish trust, credibility and visibility for financial professionals.—
ByMike Saunders,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Our government piles regulations on businesses and turns a blind eye as shoplifting ruins retail outlets.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Vrabel eventually tried to defuse the situation by taking matters into his own hands and jumping into the pile.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Regional Concentration Patterns The inventory accumulation is particularly pronounced in SunBelt markets that experienced rapid construction growth during the pandemic.—
Brad Hunter,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Together, this combination causes the accumulation of astrocytic GABA and excessive tonic inhibition in key brain regions like the PFC.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Aug. 2025
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While Hamas commits atrocities against its own people, uses its children as human shields, hoards humanitarian aid, and starves Israeli hostages like Evyatar David — forcing him to dig his own grave — the international community blames Israel.—
Avi Weiss,
New York Daily News,
10 Aug. 2025
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Buffett's cash hoard of $344.1 billion remained near a record high.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
4 Aug. 2025
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My last round of questions, particularly useless, equally American, involves the bewildering cultural cache that Park throws into his work.—
Eric Olson
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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While its competitors like Capcom’s Street Fighter have seen peaks and valleys in their cultural cache, Warner Bros. Games have churned out Mortal Kombat games regularly since the original game’s arcade release in 1992.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
17 July 2025
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Global stockpile The Hiroshima atomic bomb, with an explosive yield of 15 kilotons, would be considered a low-yield nuclear weapon by today’s standards.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
5 Aug. 2025
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The comments at the time raised concerns that Trump would spark a new arms race by increasing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons, which had been reduced through arms control agreements with Russia after the end of the Cold War.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
1 Aug. 2025
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