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Here is a reply I wrote to someone else who had the same issue. I don't believe their solution applies to my situation, because their problem was fixed when they upgraded to Mavericks. I have been using Mavericks since it came out, but I have been having this problem ever since I got my MacBook Pro more than 2 years ago.
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If I search for a particular word or combination, preview crashes. It happens much more often when I am searching multiple PDF's at once.
It really does seem incredibly random. I could type the word "experiential" into the search box, and it will crash. I can restart Preview and do the same search over and over and it will always crash after typing a specific letter in the word (i.e., it will crash EVERY time I get to the T in "experiential."
To get around it, I have resulted to searching for the last half of words I want to find. I will search for "iential" instead of experiential or "ingency" instead of contingency.
It is truly insane. On any given day, I never know what search word will crash with what document. But in any given session of a few hours, I know the same words will cause the same document or group of documents to crash over and over.
And it doesn't just happen sometimes. I would say it happens with about 25% of the words I search for. Again, I am search several documents at once, which may contribute to my problem being worse. But, this shouldn't be happening at all.
I have trashed the preferences files and repaired all permissions. No help. AAAAAGH!

Do a backup.
Quit Preview.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Remove the following. You may not find them all. Restart and test.
Containers/com.apple.Preview
Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState
Credit Linc Davis for this solution.

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