No. 11,062 in Catalan
sortejar
To raffle or to avoid.
In a sentence
Els organitzadors volen sortejar un viatge a París.
The organizers want to raffle a trip to Paris.
In this sentence, 'sortejar' is used in the sense of conducting a lottery or raffle to give away a prize.
Va sortejar els obstacles amb molta habilitat.
He skillfully avoided the obstacles.
Here, 'sortejar' is used metaphorically to mean bypassing or overcoming obstacles.
Abans de decidir qui comença, van sortejar-ho amb un dau.
Before deciding who starts, they determined it by tossing a die.
In this case, 'sortejar' refers to resolving something by chance or a random determining method.
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