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Such as common idioms? That's an interesting hypothesis but it seems it would have to do more with meaning dominance.I've hypothesized that words which appear in highly frequent phrases undergo less "lexical priming"
Idioms are difficult to use to study this precisely because they have different possible meaning. I'm talking about phrases that appear to still be fully compositional, but are very frequent with words that co-occur together more than expected by chance - some examples are "parmesan cheese", " academic achievement ", " good job", etc.