paper trail

Example Sentences

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Christie’s specialist Giada Damen, who spent months retracing its paper trail and showing it to Michelangelo experts, said this foot wound up with a Swiss diplomat whose family held onto it for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal

As your story illustrates, the paper trail should be followed meticulously, particularly if there are notable gaps in the paper trail itself.

From MarketWatch

There is, of course, a rich paper trail, and the author made avid use of the Sanders mayoral archives at the University of Vermont.

From The Wall Street Journal

With no paper trail from a hospital birth, none of the trio will ever be able to trace their mother.

From Barron's

"We needed to create a paper trail so he could find his way back to us," Johanne says.

From BBC