Collocations for "mentioned"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "mentioned" in context.
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mention
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- don't mention it
- didn't mention that
- never mentioned that
- did I mention (that)?
- mentioned the [name, date, detail]
- mention it [again, because]
- now that you mention it
- you should have mentioned it (earlier)
- I should have mentioned (that)
- mentioned that you (had) [found, heard, saw, are, have]
- mention any [specific, particular]
- [forgot, remembered, failed] to mention
- too [many, numerous] to mention
- mentioned in the [paper, magazine]
- mentioned in [passing, conversation, dispatches]
- mentioned on the [news, cover]
- mentioned for her [achievements, book, research]
- mentioned [in passing, discreetly]
- a [special, specific, worthy, noteworthy] mention
- a special mention [goes, must be made] to
- the [president, author, student] was given an honorable mention
- the [performance, result, failure] was worthy of mention
- makes no mention of the [mistake, allegations, episode]
- made no mention of [stopping, helping, intending]
- no mention (at all) was made of [how, why, when, where, what]
- [flinched, sighed, groaned, cringed] at the mention of [her name, the incident]
'mentioned' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
above
- announcement
- as
- bloke
- chapter
- colleague
- conversation
- decree
- despair
- different
- disclaimer
- dispatch
- document
- duplicate
- elsewhere
- encode
- hastily
- hereafter
- interview
- issue
- mention
- numerous
- occasion
- opening
- paragraph
- passing
- previously
- proposal
- rarely
- report
- reporter
- rotten
- sadly
- said
- seldom
- select
- shall
- specifically
- speech
- subsequent
- subsequently
- title
- trivial
- twinkle
- vague