Not possible to mock Thread.sleep

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When converting an existing testcase that uses PowerMock and EasyMock to use Mockito, I ran into a problem: the test used to use PowerMock.mockStatic(Thread.class) and then do

Thread.sleep(1000);
EasyMock.expectLastCall();

(etc.) to verify that the code paused for the intended time between retry attempts, without the test actually taking many seconds to run. With Mockito (version 5.12.0 on Java 17 for macOs), Mockito.mockStatic(Thread.class) fails, with the following error message (see below for SSCCE):

org.mockito.exceptions.base.MockitoException: It is not possible to mock static methods of java.lang.Thread to avoid interfering with class loading what leads to infinite loops

I can understand that some of the static methods on Thread cannot be safely mocked, but does that also apply to Thread.sleep? Is it possible to somehow do a partial static mock of Thread, so that sleep can be mocked?

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Short, self-contained compilable example:

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.mockito.MockedStatic;
import org.mockito.Mockito;

public class SSCCE {
    public void productionCodeThatSleeps() throws InterruptedException {
        Thread.sleep(1000);
    }

    @Test
    public void testThreadSleep() throws Exception {
        try (MockedStatic<Thread> mockedStatic = Mockito.mockStatic(Thread.class)) {
            productionCodeThatSleeps();
            mockedStatic.verify(() -> Thread.sleep(1000));
        }
    }
}