Synonyms for paper trail
pa·per trail

Princeton's WordNet

1. paper trailnoun

   the written evidence of someone's activities

   "this paper trail consisted mainly of electronically stored information"

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1. • Written Record

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1. Senator Guingona:

   The paper trail ends there. That is the problem, right now we are at a dead end.

2. Ron Hosko:

   I am certain the FBI is looking at the nexus of state and the business of the foundation enrichment, is there a shell game being played out on a global grand scale that creates a challenging paper trail?

3. Linda Batiste:

   Keep those lines of communication open, and if worse comes to worst, you’ll be glad you had a paper trail.

4. Elijah Cummings:

   There is a paper trail that the WH does not want our committee to follow. But let it be known that we will follow it.

5. Paula Duncan:

   We all tried to convince her to look at the paper trail. We laid it out in front of her again and again and she still said that she had a reasonable doubt. And that's the way the jury worked. We didn't want it to be hung, so we tried for an extended period of time to convince her, but in the end she held out and that's why we have 10 counts that did not get a verdict.