Backport PR #60454 on branch 2.3.x (String dtype: coerce missing valu… #21214

Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	20m 23s
Linux-Musl	22m 0s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	33m 1s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	57m 57s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	37m 17s
macos-13 actions-39.yaml	48m 29s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	29m 43s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	23m 26s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	25m 26s
macos-14 actions-39.yaml	22m 29s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	39m 52s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	45m 29s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	41m 13s
windows-latest actions-39.yaml	35m 31s
python-dev (macOS-13)	27m 9s
python-dev (macOS-14)	14m 9s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	23m 58s
python-dev (windows-latest)	26m 30s
ubuntu-latest actions-310.yaml	54m 56s
Copy-on-Write 3.10	29m 15s
ubuntu-latest actions-311.yaml	50m 16s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	47m 51s
Locale: zh_CN	26m 56s
Copy-on-Write 3.10 (warnings)	28m 52s
Copy-on-Write 3.11	26m 42s
Locale: it_IT	26m 57s
Downstream Compat	5m 40s
Copy-on-Write 3.11 (warnings)	27m 28s
Numpy Dev	23m 1s
Pyarrow Nightly	23m 33s
ubuntu-latest actions-312.yaml	37m 37s
Future infer strings	38m 31s
Copy-on-Write 3.12	30m 14s
Copy-on-Write 3.9	28m 16s
ubuntu-latest actions-39.yaml	50m 54s
Copy-on-Write 3.9 (warnings)	28m 13s
Minimum Versions	27m 14s
Pypy	7m 56s
	19h 54m 24s

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