"papertrail" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "2000, Mel Keegan, Aquamarine, page 38",
          "text": "Murchison's clothes were strewn like a papertrail from the stair well to the living room, and the man himself was naked, bent over the toilet with a bottle of mouth wash in one hand and a glass of dissolving seltzer in the other.",
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          "ref": "2013, Christopher Kelly, Theodosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, page 20",
          "text": "If a papertrail — and not even as detailed as that for the first Council of Ephesus — could be imagined surviving for Constantine (before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge or the campaign against Licinius or the Council. of Nicaea) or for Theodosius I (before his two civil wars in the West), then these moments might not seem so forcefully dominated by a single imperial personality.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Kay Christopher, Never Let Her Slip Away",
          "text": "Myra retrieved a number of other pieces of the papertrail and headed back to the kitchen, spreading out the torn sheets on the table.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019, Martin Kemp, Margaret Dalivalle, Robert B. Simon, Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts",
          "text": "The papertrail generated by the sequestration and dispersal of the Royal Collection in 1649, and its partial restitution, or re-sequestration, in 1660, reveals only one painting explicitly corresponding to the description of a Salvator Mundi by Leonardo: the painting disbursed to Stone in 1651 and returned by him in 1660.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019, Linda Anderson, Contemporary Poetry Archive",
          "text": "A moon's light in a ship's wake might make a similar papertrail.",
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        "Alternative form of paper trail"
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          "ref": "2000, Mel Keegan, Aquamarine, page 38",
          "text": "Murchison's clothes were strewn like a papertrail from the stair well to the living room, and the man himself was naked, bent over the toilet with a bottle of mouth wash in one hand and a glass of dissolving seltzer in the other.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Christopher Kelly, Theodosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, page 20",
          "text": "If a papertrail — and not even as detailed as that for the first Council of Ephesus — could be imagined surviving for Constantine (before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge or the campaign against Licinius or the Council. of Nicaea) or for Theodosius I (before his two civil wars in the West), then these moments might not seem so forcefully dominated by a single imperial personality.",
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          "text": "Myra retrieved a number of other pieces of the papertrail and headed back to the kitchen, spreading out the torn sheets on the table.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2019, Martin Kemp, Margaret Dalivalle, Robert B. Simon, Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts",
          "text": "The papertrail generated by the sequestration and dispersal of the Royal Collection in 1649, and its partial restitution, or re-sequestration, in 1660, reveals only one painting explicitly corresponding to the description of a Salvator Mundi by Leonardo: the painting disbursed to Stone in 1651 and returned by him in 1660.",
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          "text": "A moon's light in a ship's wake might make a similar papertrail.",
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