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Cooler bosses struggle to attend studies (7)

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I believe the answer is:

wardens

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'cooler bosses' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'struggle to attend studies' is the wordplay.
'struggle' becomes 'war' (warring is a kind of struggling).
'to attend' says to put letters next to each other.
'studies' becomes 'dens' (I've seen this in another clue).
'war'+'dens'='WARDENS'

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(Other definitions for wardens that I've seen before include "Wanders about with guards" , "Prison officials" , "Officers in charge of prisons" , "Do they supervise" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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