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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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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.
Firstly, a flat rebuttal of another's opinion is not in itself a statement of fact, simply a disagreement in terms.
Its fifth volume, on Washington's presidency, was so contentiously Federalist that Jefferson considered writing a rebuttal.
No book can offer a rebuttal to all criticisms of Cuba, and it's reasonable to say that no book should.
The prosecution has called several rebuttal witnesses to the stand to testify about the way in which evidence was collected.

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