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
Samuel Rogers has an incidental mention of the effect produced upon Nelson by the treatment now experienced.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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
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
