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The parallel a lot of people have been mentioning is Barry Goldwater in 1964.

From Slate • May 17, 2016

All summer, users of Facebook who like an official NFL team page have been mentioning their teams in status updates, and the tallies are in.

From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2015

But you are not of such a character as some men I have been mentioning and therefore it is that you receive praise.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

The sepulchres in which the objects we have been mentioning were found, are the most ancient in Chaldæa—on this all the explorers are agreed.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

A curious detail is that the various pieces we have been mentioning were sometimes, in representation, combined after the fashion of a regular tetralogy.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George