conforming
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The 30-year mortgage rate for jumbo loans — mortgages that exceed conforming balances of $832,750 — also rose to 6.72%, up 2 basis points from a week prior.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
In totalitarian societies, she summarizes, “either you are destroyed by conforming to the regime, or you are destroyed through non-compliance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
But then "people started conforming to behave in ways that would not show racism. That doesn't mean that it's now absent", she adds.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
The trick was to be taken seriously as a professional without appearing to care about conforming to a standard and certainly without showing that one actually cared.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
