paper trail
Example Sentences
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"We needed to create a paper trail so he could find his way back to us," Johanne says.
From BBC
Without a paper trail, there’s no way to prove someone asked for their money back.
From Seattle Times
They left an “important paper trail” of where children were employed and reminded businesses of the rules, said Laura Kellams, from the nonprofit Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
From Washington Post
The women tended to leave less plentiful paper trails, but Chin painstakingly brings several to life.
From New York Times
The power of the paper trail that Dominion was able to obtain proved without a doubt that Fox knew that Joe Biden had won the election.
From Salon
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