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
Hence the scanty, and for the most part merely incidental, mention of things of that nature in his retrospective history.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar
The incidental mention of the condition of the abbey itself at different times strongly illustrates the history of the district and the age.
From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald
Among professed Christians, and even among ministers of the gospel, there is heard scarcely a reference to Satan, except perhaps an incidental mention in the pulpit.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
