say in passing

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He’d say, in passing, that he’d modelled for Guess jeans—“runway only”—or that he’d appeared on the cover of Russian Vogue.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

It is impossible to consider Denver without considering Judge B. Lindsey—although I may say in passing that I was urged to perform the impossible in this respect.

From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian

And let me say, in passing, that reconstruction at the South is hindered to-day for the same reason, responsibility is taken away from a large class of citizens.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

And here we may say, in passing, that this brilliant Community has a right to complain that its story should have to be told by aliens.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

This chapter, I may say in passing, is the chapter of most permanent value in the "Defence."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various