diff --git a/core/designsystem/build.gradle.kts b/core/designsystem/build.gradle.kts
index cf9873e2c7..2e5c4a3db5 100644
--- a/core/designsystem/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/core/designsystem/build.gradle.kts
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ dependencies {
 
     implementation(libs.androidx.core.ktx)
     implementation(libs.coil.kt.compose)
+    implementation(libs.kotlinx.coroutines.core) {
+        because("Compose BoM forces a version by default that AndroidJUnitRunner does not expect, and will fail with: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lkotlinx/coroutines/DelayWithTimeoutDiagnostics;")
+    }
 
     androidTestImplementation(project(":core:testing"))
 }
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 1fc850d0a9..eb276a6757 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ hiltExt = "1.0.0"
 jacoco = "0.8.7"
 junit4 = "4.13.2"
 kotlin = "1.9.0"
-kotlinxCoroutines = "1.6.4"
+kotlinxCoroutines = "1.7.3"
 kotlinxDatetime = "0.4.0"
 kotlinxSerializationJson = "1.5.1"
 ksp = "1.9.0-1.0.13"
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ hilt-ext-work = { group = "androidx.hilt", name = "hilt-work", version.ref = "hi
 junit4 = { group = "junit", name = "junit", version.ref = "junit4" }
 kotlin-stdlib = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlin", name = "kotlin-stdlib-jdk8", version.ref = "kotlin" }
 kotlinx-coroutines-android = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlinx", name = "kotlinx-coroutines-android", version.ref = "kotlinxCoroutines" }
+kotlinx-coroutines-core = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlinx", name = "kotlinx-coroutines-core", version.ref = "kotlinxCoroutines" }
 kotlinx-coroutines-guava = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlinx", name = "kotlinx-coroutines-guava", version.ref = "kotlinxCoroutines" }
 kotlinx-coroutines-test = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlinx", name = "kotlinx-coroutines-test", version.ref = "kotlinxCoroutines" }
 kotlinx-datetime = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlinx", name = "kotlinx-datetime", version.ref = "kotlinxDatetime" }