Backport PR #60191 on branch 2.3.x (TST: add extra test case for np.a… #20086

Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	20m 1s
Linux-Musl	16m 42s
python-dev (macOS-14)	15m 3s
python-dev (macOS-13)	31m 50s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	24m 42s
python-dev (windows-latest)	27m 52s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	1h 4m 39s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	45m 18s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	59m 32s
macos-13 actions-39.yaml	50m 27s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	34m 51s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	32m 49s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	26m 37s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	54m 59s
macos-14 actions-39.yaml	33m 50s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	46m 44s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	40m 42s
windows-latest actions-39.yaml	39m 24s
ubuntu-latest actions-310.yaml	53m 36s
Copy-on-Write 3.10 (warnings)	28m 3s
Copy-on-Write 3.10	28m 20s
ubuntu-latest actions-311.yaml	48m 48s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	48m 31s
Locale: zh_CN	28m 3s
Copy-on-Write 3.11	28m 32s
Locale: it_IT	28m 4s
Copy-on-Write 3.11 (warnings)	27m 38s
Downstream Compat	5m 34s
Numpy Dev	22m 25s
Pyarrow Nightly	23m 32s
ubuntu-latest actions-312.yaml	37m 6s
Future infer strings	42m 9s
Copy-on-Write 3.12	32m 5s
ubuntu-latest actions-39.yaml	48m 10s
Copy-on-Write 3.9 (warnings)	29m 50s
Copy-on-Write 3.9	29m 56s
Minimum Versions	28m 13s
Pypy	8m 17s
	21h 32m 54s

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