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paper trail

noun

  1. a written or printed record, as of transactions or judicial opinions, especially when used to incriminate someone.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of paper trail1

First recorded in 1975–80
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Example Sentences

The official also said that top district officials frequently chatted in Google Docs in order to avoid communicating by email — a strategy commonly used among students to chat with one another without leaving a paper trail.

E-poll books have paper backups, for example, while ballots have paper trails, and voter registration databases have offline backups.

When you start to act out, there are incident reports that have to be sent all around, and now there’s a paper trail and a lot more people are getting involved.

An estimated 95% of American votes had a paper trail this year thanks to mail-in ballots and in-person voting machines—a great help with verification and audits.

Touchscreen machines that record a digital ballot, for example, may be simple, but they are not considered as secure because they do not create a paper trail.

The song left a long paper trail, and discovery of the 24-track proved far easier than other Judas Priest masters.

And if they review this, the paper trail is going to be sweaty.

First, given the magnitude of the alleged achievement, the Mitchell paper trail was shorter than he expected.

News of an expanded investigation–with a subpoenaed paper trail–may be welcome.

Howard Kurtz on the long paper trail that could alienate moderate swing-state voters just getting to know Paul Ryan.

I'll tell you, Sam; we'll tear up paper and leave a paper trail.

Whereas Dale got the lantern, found my paper trail, and guessed at the ferry.

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