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

It is no part of his design to give any regular list of the clans or their territories; he merely makes incidental mention of such as he had to do with.

From Early Britain—Roman Britain by Conybeare, Edward

As yet I have but met with the incidental mention of his name in the pages of Fox, and in Hollingworth's Mancuensis, pp.

From Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

In this dearth of authentic biography, we must be contented with such information concerning him, as either his own writings, or the incidental mention made of him by others, will furnish.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis