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

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

Also there are certain minor objects—tin ships, Easter eggs, and the like—of which I shall make incidental mention, that like the kiwi and the duck-billed platypus refuse to be classified.

From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)