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What is a rebuttal?

What is a rebuttal? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of refuting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
  2. A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
  3. (law) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
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So under the First Amendment, the remedy for error is rebuttal, not litigation.
She'd expected evasions, excuses, but not the calm rebuttal that she had just heard.
Stand provides a detailed rebuttal of the various claims, but there are a couple of gotchas that particularly interest us.
Earlier in her prepared testimony, Ms Rice neither criticised Mr Clarke nor offered a point-by-point rebuttal of what he had said.
Churchill's response was a two-day debate on the conduct of the war, wound up with a point-by-point rebuttal of his critics.
He had certainly not taken offence at her sharp rebuttal, as she had intended he should.

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