golden hour

noun

1. the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving

Example Sentences

“We are still in the golden hour,” Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV, deputy administrator of the Philippines’s Office of Civil Defense, said in a news conference.

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"You talk about the golden hour in investigations - that was lost, the day was lost, several days were lost - and I do not envy the senior investigating officer who picked up the case and tried to make progress with it," he told the BBC.

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I will say “The Golden Hour” feels like a … culmination in some sense.

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The new book, “The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood,” is a history of the film industry beginning in the 1950s.

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“The Golden Hour” is a determinedly artful and novelistic memoir, recalling the ebb and flow of millions in Hollywood in the past half-century, not to account for winners and losers but to better understand his parents’ psyches, and his own.

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