paper trail
Example Sentences
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As long as you have the paper trail in the event you are audited, you will be fine.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
She becomes the de facto “keeper” of these letters and more mementos — a “strange gift,” she writes, the paper trail of something that should never have happened.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
For one, he doesn’t have the provocative paper trail that Dhillon has.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
“What we want to do is make a really clear documentation paper trail all the way through,” said partner Mark Segrist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
A paper trail to a Chickasaw great-grandfather none of them had ever known was a path into a past she’d spent her whole life escaping.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
