prebuttal

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prebuttal (plural prebuttals)

1. (slang) A preemptive rebuttal.
   • 2001 December 17, Hubert B. Herring, “Roll Over, Shakespeare, the Future Is Here”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2021 October 22, Marina Hyde, “Finally, Facebook can say it’s not the most toxic social network”, in The Guardian‎:

     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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