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Join in currencies from Macao, Turkey and Japan as has been said (8)

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I believe the answer is:

avowedly

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'as has been said' is the definition.

'join in currencies from macao turkey and japan' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'join' could be 'wed' (I've seen this before) and 'wed' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for avowedly that I've seen is " Admittedly".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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