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The phrase "as a telegram from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referencing a message or information that is being conveyed in a manner similar to a telegram, often implying urgency or directness.
Example: "The news arrived as a telegram from the front lines, detailing the latest developments in the conflict."
Alternatives: "like a message from" or "similar to a dispatch from".
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We see Meireles's file from the biennial archives, as well as a telegram from Lygia Clark, exiled in Paris, and a postcard from Hélio Oiticica, who'd gone to London.
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That should ensure a telegram from the Queen.
Hartigan, whose leave from work had expired, was relieved to receive a telegram from his employer: "Stay as long as you are making runs".
A telegram from him — a 250-word statement, as humble as its purported author was (when healthy) arrogant — was read aloud at the ceremony by an American diplomat.
Soon after the 1932 33 season ended, Shankly received a telegram from Carlisle United asking him to return as soon as possible because "another club was after me".
When I read that you wanted a telegram from me, I was thrilled as I haven't been for a long time.
On his return to England, he resigned from the agency by sending a telegram from the pub, and took up work as a gardener.
There is even a telegram from a young Gordon Brown.
I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased.
"I remember getting a telegram from Susan Sontag.
Later that day Brearley received a telegram from Spike Milligan.
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