The phrase "happens to exist" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to something that exists as an accidental or coincidental occurrence. For example, you could say, "The timing of this event happening to exist could not have been more perfect!".
That platform just happens to exist far from home, in a place with green fields and sparkling diamonds, otherwise known as a land of opportunity.
Doom-ridden on the surface, it is actually the work of a hedonist, a man whose love of orchestral sound just happens to exist more at the bottom of its range than its top.
Avi, it is a counterproductive strategy to ad hominem attack parents who work in the SF Bay Area and who want an affordable home for their family which happens to exist only in distant suburbs because extreme environmentalists have constrained Bay Area housing supply as much as they can by blocking any and all building permits.
God's existence is not contingent God is not the sort of being that just happens to exist.
It assumes that law possesses certain features, and it possesses them by its very nature, or essence, as law, whenever and wherever it happens to exist.
In this context svabhāva is equated with primary existennce and denotes a specific ontological status: to exist with svabhāva means to be part of the basic furniture of the world, independent of anything else that also happens to exist.
It free-associates its way towards loose, garrulous, outrageously irrelevant sequences concerning people who happen to exist in Oklahoma at the same time as Russell.
Situations are established whereby operating tensions that happen to exist between groups are identified and explored by group members and/or their representatives.
And if you point out that no "regional organizations" happen to exist in the neighborhood of Burundi -- well, that's true.
J.R.R.: I suppose I just have trouble thinking that there is a point in having things exist if they aren't things that are wanted by things that already happen to exist.
It was hard to live with siblings, like a third brother, Kerian, who did not happen to exist, or to know what to make of birthdays when Mom's big gift for little Kenny was a stolen pony.
