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 an incidental mention of a fact.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
But the incidental mention of the forgiveness of sins resulting from the redemption by Christ has not the meaning of an abolition of sin.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
After this incidental mention of Aruru, the narrative passes back undisturbed to Marduk.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
