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
Your incidental mention that you have family prayers every evening produced a thousand strange sensations in my mind.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
Of the first institution of sacrifice it makes only incidental mention, referring with great significance to those skins of beasts, of which God provided a covering for the nakedness of Adam and Eve.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
It is an incidental mention of a fact.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
