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prebuttal

 noun
     
pre‧but‧tal [countable]
a statement that a politician makes saying that a criticism of them is false or unfair, before the criticism has been made [↪ rebuttal]:
Wiggins issued a prebuttal against his opponent's speech, even before the text was delivered to reporters.
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