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Write the specified variant `object` to the specified output `stream` in a single&hyphen;line (human&hyphen;readable) format, and return a reference to `stream`&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlb&lowbar;variant&period;h&gt;`

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template&lt;class TYPES&gt;
std::ostream&
operator&lt;&lt;(
    std::ostream& stream,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/VariantImp.adoc[VariantImp&lt;TYPES&gt;] const& object);
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