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

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 Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

He began to dream about the Tucker case, and an incidental mention of it in the office would make the atmosphere unpleasant for the day.

From The Best Policy by Flower, Elliott

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