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"he happens upon" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone has encountered someone or something by chance or unexpectedly. For example: As John was walking down the street, he happens upon a bar he had never seen before.
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There, he happens upon two important revelations.
He finds his calling when he happens upon a burning car and a badly injured woman.
It isn't long before he happens upon a local girl picking clover beside a pool.
In his freewheeling bicycle excursions through the rugged landscape, he happens upon a murder investigation and crosses paths with a goofy local police captain.
He happens upon two men conversing, and believes that they must be the two men sympathetic to Shabaab who are supposed to give him further directions.
Almost as soon as Frederic goes ashore, he happens upon a group of young women, wards in chancery to Major-General Stanley.
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One morning he happened upon Tudor City.
Later, he said, he happened upon a related term, Osamaphiles.
In 1926, during a visit to Germany, he happened upon a magazine article about the Bauhaus.
It was there, around 1979, that he happened upon the Sondheim-Shevelove "Frogs".
Then he happened upon a political-science book whose authors claimed that money wins elections, period.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com