leave a paper trail
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To create and leave behind physical or digital documentation of one's activities. The con artist wrote fraudulent checks all over the state, leaving a paper trail for police to follow. Frank swore that he wasn't using the company's computer for illegal activities, but he left a digital paper trail that proved otherwise.
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