Latent Semantic Analysis itself is not co-occurrence. Typically, more than 95% of word-pairs with great similarity will never appear together in a given paragraph. If these words were to cooccur in the same document, their cosine similarity is not high. But...

In a study by Langer, Blank, and Chanowitz, researchers found certain word choices could influence people to act against their own self-interests. The researcher would approach a copier where a long line of students stood. She would try three different word choices at different times to see how the other students would respond to each request. She didnt change what she was asking, only the word choice. When she said, Excuse me, I only have five pages. May I use the copy machine because I am in a rush? 94 percent complied.