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Michael adores his sons and daughter, but — in classic Disney matricidal fashion — his wife has recently died, and he’s in mourning.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2018

In the matricidal strain, a single base change in the gene alters the ion channel.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 28, 2018

The change in strategy must be adaptive—allowing more offspring to survive—because Braendle's team keeps finding other matricidal wild strains.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 28, 2018

If Lamarck had come across these matricidal worms, he might have thought a selfless mother had adopted this strategy in a single generation, then passed it on.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 28, 2018

But if you look behind the words at the spirit, I am sure you will not find it matricidal.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William