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- noun Plural form of
prebuttal .
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Examples
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Both campaigns realizing the stakes, out already with what they call prebuttals, this one distributed first by the Gore campaign.
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It has made for an attritional campaign of political trench warfare, dominated by claim and rapid counterclaim, rebuttals and "prebuttals", weighty dossiers from Labour and ever more letters from supportive businessmen orchestrated by the Tories.
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There were those empty prebuttals about the president's speech that just filled the dead air and made Democrats look even smaller.
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But, obviously, you know, Democrats coming out of this speech, even before it, in the prebuttals, have been saying that the president's policies have not necessarily made the country safer.
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DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're already hearing that response in the prebuttals, if you will, that we're getting from Democrats.
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A week long barrage of prebuttals (ph) pulminating (ph) this afternoon with Senate Democratic Leader Henry Reid declaring that he thinks the president is a bad commander in chief and that also we live in "a Bush Orwellian (ph) world divorced from reality."
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Speaking of those prebuttals or whatever we're calling them, Candy, what is it that the Bush people are saying ahead of time is the message they want to get out no matter what Vice President Gore says?
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When the Democratic leaders of Congress offer their State of the Union prebuttals at the National Press Club later today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to challenge for the first time President Bush’s authority to pursue an incursion into Iran without prior congressional approval.
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