incidental mention
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An incidental mention won't really be enough for A-list consideration, but if you think special dispensation should be applied, please do feel free to justify.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2010
When he got up to make his speech extolling U.S.-British cooperation, he read from his Cabinet-approved little slips of blue paper until he came to an incidental mention of the word "Japan."
From Time Magazine Archive
From Thiers, confirmed by contemporary memoirs and pamphlets and other incidental mention, I gained my conviction that the Continental System was the determinative factor in Napoleon's fortunes after Tilsit.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
And her incidental mention of the pet frog hopping on the bar of the hotel, in the midst of a group of onlooking miners,—was it the setting for Mark Twain's Jumping Frog of Calaveras?
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
This incidental mention of Mrs. Foster had sent my thoughts and fears fluttering toward a deep, unutterable dread, which was lurking under all my other cares.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton
