Meaning of prebuttal | Babel Free

Definitions

A preemptive rebuttal.

informal

Examples

“You're no flexecuive, after all, just a lowly permalance. Your prebuttals fall⟳ flat, and he orders you on to a data fast, tosses a message slip⟳ on your inflatable, and leaves.”

“The pope should stick⟳ to religion and leave⟳ science to the scientists, said one conservative, the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, in one of a wave⟳ of “prebuttal” remarks as the encyclical was being finalized.”

“Still, is there a more exciting player in the prebuttal space than Facebook, whose attempts to get⟳ out in front of the fortnightly exposés of its behaviour are fast becoming a totally non-ominous part of the early 21st-century powerscape?”

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