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

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 Stretton, Hesba

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 Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

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