How to Use paper trail in a Sentence
paper trail
noun- They covered up the fraud and were careful not to leave a paper trail.
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If that were the case, there should be a paper trail to confirm it.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
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And all those tweets and posts end up being a paper trail.
—Hazlitt, 16 Dec. 2022
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Because Richard has a paper trail of all the things that happened.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 7 June 2023
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The paper trail between you and the cruise line did not spell out the airfare refund rules.
—Christopher Elliott, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
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There is also a sort of online paper trail that seems to grow each day.
—Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021
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But in 1982, the task force had to rely on a literal paper trail.
—Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
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That ball is outta here and there is nothing left but a paper trail!
—Jackson Weimer, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
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And the state is one of a few whose election machines still produce no paper trail.
—Paul Waldman, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
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Every vote has a paper trail, and paper cannot be hacked.
—Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
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Oral history was – and still is – a major link to our past, but the paper trail can go cold.
—USA Today, 17 Oct. 2019
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The vast majority of votes cast in the United States right now are with a paper trail.
—CBS News, 19 May 2024
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The company prefers e-mails to phone calls, since the paper trail is easier to track.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
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The paper trail dried up when the consultants left Matrix.
—Sarah Blaskey, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2022
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Ozier has found the paper trail that might prove the latter to be ambiguous, at best.
—Rosalind Bentley, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
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Perhaps the biggest problem in Schweikert’s ethics case is the sheer volume and scale of the paper trail against him.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2020
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The only kind of money that leaves no paper trail is paper.
—Gilad Edelman, Wired, 28 Mar. 2022
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That way, there would never be a paper trail showing that the two of them had exchanged messages.
—Zachariah Mushawatu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2024
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Without a paper trail, there's no way to prove someone asked for their money back.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
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There are new voting machines in use that allow for a paper trail.
—Dylan McGuinness, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
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Most NGOs are not good at keeping records and maintaining a paper trail.
—Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 8 July 2019
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Paige tends to keep her distance from the other townspeople and only deals with cash to avoid a paper trail.
—Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 17 July 2021
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It’s a paper trail rather than a body that proves mystifying.
—Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 18 June 2021
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Then Twitter came along and offered a new and treacherous kind of paper trail.
—Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
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The painting had been presumed missing since 1949, when the paper trail of its existence went cold.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
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Crozier left a limited paper trail, but Smith does a fine job of tracing his life.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
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The paper trail suggests that Cherkasov’s path was cleared in advance by Russian enablers and agents already in place.
—Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
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Right now, there are 13 states that don’t even require voting machines to maintain a paper trail.
—Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2020
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The cash arrives in suitcases, plastic bags, even ice cream tubs, observers say, and the paper trail is hard to unwind.
—Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
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To most, this paper trail would paint the picture of a serial criminal.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
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